Jul. 10, 2004

Rulings Encourage Police to Ignore 'Miranda'

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - In the flurry of end of the term cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, not much attention has been paid to two important rulings concerning the consequences of the police intentionally violating Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966).

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law

Erwin's most recent book is "Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism." He is also the author of "Closing the Courthouse," (Yale University Press 2017).